https://padlet.com/roryg1412/1pl2c577oebb In what ways do your media products use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products? en-us 2017-05-08 15:15:06 UTC 2023-05-09 17:35:30 UTC hello@padlet.com roryg1412 https://padlet.com/roryg1412/1pl2c577oebb/wish/170538009 It can be used as a basic outline for magazines to follow that makes them look more professional, organised and neat. However, if a magazine challenges them it can give of a ]]> 2017-05-08 15:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/roryg1412/1pl2c577oebb/wish/170538009 roryg1412 https://padlet.com/roryg1412/1pl2c577oebb/wish/170540626 2017-05-08 15:26:17 UTC https://padlet.com/roryg1412/1pl2c577oebb/wish/170540626 roryg1412 https://padlet.com/roryg1412/1pl2c577oebb/wish/170563544 I decided to do a hip-hop magazine as it is a popular form of music that engulfs many popular artists that cross over multiple genres of music. This allows me to cover multiple artists. Also Hip-Hop is a very popular form of music with a large fan base, also as some artists cross over genres it means that my magazine can cover artists who would be more associated with doing pop for example.]]> 2017-05-08 16:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/roryg1412/1pl2c577oebb/wish/170563544 roryg1412 https://padlet.com/roryg1412/1pl2c577oebb/wish/170563758 Overall I’m happy with the final outcome of my magazine as I feel as though it would appeal to people who like Hip-Hop as it is a relaxed informal style as it doesn’t use regular conventions of a magazine as it doesn’t have a running structure and is very changeable so if you look at my mock-ups my designs appear to change every time which makes it more flexible around the artist in my magazine so it can appeal to more people each and every week.]]> 2017-05-08 16:45:05 UTC https://padlet.com/roryg1412/1pl2c577oebb/wish/170563758 roryg1412 https://padlet.com/roryg1412/1pl2c577oebb/wish/170563931 I think it went very well overall as I feel it fits to the majority of the conventions of a Hip-Hop music magazine as it has an informal approach and style to it. It also is quite bright and eye-catching so can grab the reader’s attention and could draw in more readers. So I think that it was successful in that way. A specific example would be that I had my masthead spanning the top of the page from the top left third to the boundary of the top right third which I think makes it look more professional as this is the style most magazines use like Billboard, NME and Q to name a few, I think it was good to look at magazines like this as they are successful magazines to so I can see what a successful magazine looks like. Another convention I followed is with pugs, as I have featured one so that people could win prizes in an attempt to expand my target audience. However I did it in an unconventional way by using an album cover of my artist as the pug with some text underneath it, this is challenging a pug as they are usually a shape of some sorts or styled like a sticker and very rarely do magazines use an album as a pug. Overall I did it in this style as I believe it best suits my magazine as it fits on my front cover in a subtle style. Another way I was able to enforce the conventions of a music magazine is by using a house style that is continually used throughout the magazine. In my Magazine I used the colours Black and Yellow as I fell the contrasting colours work well together. I was able to feature them on every page of my magazine which makes it look more professional and organised.]]> 2017-05-08 16:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/roryg1412/1pl2c577oebb/wish/170563931